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This is about more than just cars. Anything that uses RFID, NFC, etc, such as an employee badge or even contactless credit/debit card payments, are vulnerable to such an attack.
Jason Thor Hall (ex-Blizzard employee) explains how such things can be used in social engineering attacks. A Proxmark is a similar device to the Flipper Zero.
Regardless of whether it's open source hardware/technology, should we be authorising sales of such prebuilt devices for $170 which can allow the average Joe to break into an office or steal a car?
Yes we should allow them, because the problem isn't that this tool is available. The problem is that cars and other devices aren't more secure.
If you broke into a bank vault with a screwdriver, you don't ban screwdrivers; you get mad at the bank.